Computer models help scientists make sense of complex climate

9:57 PM,
Sep. 22, 2012

Dr. Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Center for Climate Research at Columbia University speaks to an audience in the Bellarmine's Frazier Hall on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012.

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Computer models show Kentucky and Indiana might be about 10 degrees warmer by 2100, assuming nothing is done to slow the burning of fossil fuels and other human causes of climate change, a NASA climate scientist told a Bellarmine University audience on Saturday.

Northern regions of the globe would warm even more, said Gavin Schmidt, the keynote speaker at a daylong climate science symposium hosted by Bellarmine University's Center for Regional Environmental Studies.

"That would be a whole 'nother world," Schmidt said. "That's a very, very large change." ...